Education Research

1. ER Education Research
Emilia-Romagna
Learning is growing

2. ER Education Research Emilia-Romagna
An educational infrastructure for an innovative area
• based on cooperation between institutions, education and training
providers and enterprises
• charachterised by specialization and integration
• able to expolit sinergies in programming actions and use of
resources
• aimed at guaranteeing everyone the right to acquire professional
skills, to grow, work and unlock one’s potential

3. Regional laws
• L.R. 14/2015 - Rules to support jon placement and social inclusion of
people who are in vulnerable conditions, through the integration
between public employment, social and health services
• L.R. n. 7/2013 - Traineeship regulation
• L.R. n. 5/2011 - Regulation of regional system of Education and
Vocational Training
• L.R. n. 15/2007 - Regional integrated system of interventions and
services to guarantee the right to higher education
• L.R. n. 17/2005 - Rules to promote occupation and work quality,
safety and regularity
• L.R. n.12/2003 - Rules to guarantee everybody the same opportunity
to access knowledge longlife, through the improvement of an
integrated system of education and vocational training

4. Education and Vocational Training
Target
Make job-oriented paths available
and increase the number of young people with a
vocational qualification
Actions
• three-year training paths to achieve a vocational
qualification
Stakeholders
• national vocational schools
• vocational training providers

5. Education and Vocational Training

6. Polytechnic Network
Target
Provide scientific, technical and technological skills to
people, enabling them to be integrated into leading
sectors of labour market
Actions
• Higher Technical Institutes
• Higher Technical Education and Training paths
• technical training paths
Stakeholders
• Higher Technical Institute Foundations
• vocational training providers
• schools
• enterprises

7. Polytechnic Network

8. The 14 paths of Higher Technical Institutes

9. Higher education and research
Target
Develop human resources to support the innovation
of regional economy
Actions
• specialization courses
• research grants
• scholarships for PhD
• customized training and consulting in support of
entrepreneurship
Stakeholders
• universities
• ASTER
• research institutes
• vocational training providers
• enterprises

10. Higher education and research

11. Employment and skills
Target
Promote employment, support people facing
changes of the labour market and facilitate social
inclusion through work
Actions
• vocational guidance
• training for employment integration and re-
employment
• internship
• apprenticeship
• traininig in-the-job and longlife learning
Stakeholders
• vocational training providers
• employment services network
• enterprises

12. Employment and skills

13. Youth Guarantee
In Emilia-Romagna

14. Youth Guarantee
National implementation plan
• defines the set of actions that can be activated by regional plans
Regional plan
• is funded by Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) - European Social
Fund amounting to 74 million €
• defines actions activated in Emilia-Romagna
• is realised in agreement with National Minister of labor and social
policies
• started on 1 May 2014
• will last till June 2016

15. Youth Guarantee
Target
• young people aged between 15 and 29 years who are not engaged in education,
employment or training
Actions
• vocational guidance (15-29 years old)
• school reintegration (15-18)
• internship (until 29)
• apprenticeship (18-29)
• civil service (18-29)
• actions in support of entrepreneurship (18-29)
• recruitment incentives (16-29)
Realization
•Emilia Romagna is the only Region who has already invested all the resources
• actions activated in 2016 will be financed by additional resources by ESF
• more than 40.000 young people have been involved by now
• more than 18.000 got a job

16. Dual education system
National experimentation
Framework agreement about the development of a dual system project
in the Education and Vocational Training system
signed on 24 September 2015 by National Government and Regions
Experimentation in Emilia-Romagna
Protocol signed on 13 January 2016 by our Region and the National
Minister of labor and social policies

17. Dual education system
in Emilia-Romagna
• beginning in 2016/2017 school year
• introducion of a fourth year of training after the three-year path of the
current Education and Vocational Training system
• vocational training providers must design and realize the training path
in partnership with enterprises
• this first experimental path will be attended by pupils who are now
concluding the third year
• the fourth year will last 1.000 hours
• internship will have a key role in the training (50-60% of the duration)
• after the fourth year pupils will achieve both a diploma and a regional
vocational qualification

18. Transitions between school and Education
and Vocational Training system
Waiting for an agreement between the Ministry of Education and the
Regions to regulate transitions between education and vocational
traininig systems
What happened in Emilia-Romagna Region:
Regional Law n. 5/2011 - Regulation of regional system of Education and
Vocational Training
“… the Region provides the implementation of measures to promote the
reorientation through support to the transition paths, which make
effective the reversibility of choices of students, with particular attention
to students at risk of abandoning school and training”

19. Regional Action supporting Education
and Vocational Training system
Two types of intervention:
• integration among teachers and trainers who plan and manage
Education and Vocational Training paths at school and training providers
• activities addressed to students, aimed at
• developing basic skills
• preventing school and training drop-out
• facilitating the transition between systems by the mutual recognition
of “educational credits”
Resources
A total amount of 8,7 millions euro:
• 5 millions allocated to educational system
• 3,7 millions to vocational training providers

20. CONTACTS
REGIONE EMILIA ROMAGNA
VIALE ALDO MORO 52
40127 BOLOGNA
051- 52 71
http://www.regione.emilia-romagna.it/
http://formazionelavoro.regione.emilia-romagna.it/
http://formazionelavoro.regione.emilia-romagna.it/er-educazione-ricerca
Milena Garavini
Direction Programming, Evaluation and Regional Action within the education
and labor policies
tel. 051 5273345 fax 051 5273177
mgaravini@regione.emilia-romagna.it
SKIPE: milena.garavini